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French government announces parade to open 2024 Olympic Games

The French Minister of Sports, Amelie Oudea-Casterainformed this Wednesday about an unprecedented parade designed for the inauguration ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Gamesas well as the participation of transgender athletes in competitions.

He indicated that the projected opening act includes the installation of stands for 600,000 people along the banks of the Seine River, in the center of Paris, along a six-kilometre route where the parade of athletes who will compete in the Games.

According to the minister, “they continue to work with the police prefecture, (the Minister of the Interior) Gerald Darmaninand the mayoress of Paris, Anne Hidalgor, to refine what we are going to do on the upper quays, but in any case there will be several hundred thousand people who will be able to benefit from this parade of athletes along the 6 kilometers of the Seine”, he declared.

Police sources indicated that the main stumbling block is to lower the number of attendees, given the complexity of offering security to such a large number of people, outdoors and along the banks of a river, which is an unprecedented event. .

Details that depend on the prefecture are expected to be explained, Oudéa-Castéra said, also referring to the artistic director of the ceremony, Thomas Jollywho “will present elements of his work to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)”, which “will then allow the safest dimension to be refined.”

Finally, the minister referred to the presence of transsexual athletes at the Paris Olympics, noting that “it will depend on each of the international federations, which govern the rules of their discipline, there are differences from one discipline to another.”

“It is a difficult and evolving issue in which we have to navigate between two requirements, inclusion and respect for sports equity,” he said in statements to the Franceinfo channel, “not everyone is in that line. Scientific advances will determine the decision on these athletes », he added.

At the end of 2021, the IOC abandoned the idea of ​​establishing uniform guidelines for the participation criteria of intersex and transgender athletes, leaving it to the international federations.

Source: PL

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